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Inside Argentina’s ‘football crisis’: why there is so much pressure on Messi & Co. to win the World Cup

Some of Argentine football's most prominent thinkers believe the national game has been corrupted to such an extent that society has followed

Why did an Argentine TV channel hold a minute’s silence after Thursday’s haunting defeat against Croatia?

Why did Diego Maradona say Jorge Sampaoli shouldn’t be let back into the country after the draw with Iceland?

Why is football in Argentina taken so seriously?

“Now the crisis is so great that not even winning the World Cup would fix it,” Cesar Luis Menotti said before the tournament, when actually winning it seemed vaguely plausible.